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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Lobgesang
 (Sung text for setting by V. Novák)
 See original
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Wie das Meer
ist die Liebe:
unerschöpflich,
unergründlich,
unermeßlich:
Woge zu Woge
stürzend gehoben,
Woge in Woge
wachsend verschlungen,
sturm-und-wetter-geberdig nun,
sonneselig nun,
willig nun dem Mond
die unaufhaltsame Fläche —
doch in der Tiefe
stetes Walten ewiger Ruhe,
ungestört,
undurchdringbar dem irdischen Blick,
starr verdämmernd in gläsernes Dunkel —
und in der Weite
stetes Schweben ewiger Regung,
ungestillt,
unentwirrbar dem irdischen Blick,
wild verschwimmend im Licht der Lüfte:
Aufklang der Unendlichkeit
ist das Meer,
ist die Liebe.

Composition:

    Set to music by Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (1870 - 1949), "Lobgesang", op. 46 no. 1, published 1912, from Erotikon, no. 1

Text Authorship:

  • by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Lobgesang"

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , "Song of praise", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Chant de louange", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 26
Word count: 78

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